. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . on Fund, ii. 228, and 225-6). The Aramaic part of the upperinscription is inverted : but this inscription (like the other) is carved on ahorizontal surface of rock, so that half of it can be read from each side. out the Tell to him, about three miles to the north. It lies sometwenty-eight miles north-east of Tell el-Hesy, and nineteen mileswest-north-west of Jerusalem. This, however, was not all. M. Gan-neau heard that an inscription was to be seen near the Tell: soproceeding with workmen to the point indicated, about 5,600 feeteast of the centre o
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . on Fund, ii. 228, and 225-6). The Aramaic part of the upperinscription is inverted : but this inscription (like the other) is carved on ahorizontal surface of rock, so that half of it can be read from each side. out the Tell to him, about three miles to the north. It lies sometwenty-eight miles north-east of Tell el-Hesy, and nineteen mileswest-north-west of Jerusalem. This, however, was not all. M. Gan-neau heard that an inscription was to be seen near the Tell: soproceeding with workmen to the point indicated, about 5,600 feeteast of the centre of the Tell, he soon discovered on a rock an inscrip-tion, about six feet in length, written partly in Greek, and partlyin Aramaic, AAKIO[T], 1H Dnn, Alkios. Bouiiihtnj of afterwards two other rocks were found in a line north and southof the first, at the same distance from the Tell, similarly inscribed ;and in 1898 Pere Lagrange found a fourth. Alkios was presumablya Greek governor of the place; the words Boundary of Gezer. ■s DISCOVERY OF THE SITE OF 6EZER 17 demonstrated that tlie spot was really the site of the ancient Ganneau, in a study on the subject,1 showed also that it was theMont Gisart often mentioned in histories of the Crusades. GeorgeAdam Smith, long before the site had been excavated, perceivedits strategical importance. Standing near the end of a ridge of hills,and overlooking the plain towards Ramleh and Joppa, it forms a1once a very strong post, and striking landmark. Within sightof every Egyptian and every Assyrian invasion of the land, Gezerhas also seen Alexander pass by, and the legions of Home in unusualflight, and the armies of the Cross struggle, waver, and give way,and Napoleon come and Gezer is first actually mentioned inhistory as one of the cities taken by Thothmes III (c. 147-5 );but scarabs and other Egyptian objects found in it testify to a veryconsiderable trade and communication with Egypt in the time oft
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